Mandingo (1975)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 126m
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: James Mason, Susan George, Perry King
Synopsis:
Life, lust and death on a Louisiana plantation in the mid nineteenth century, where the purchase of a mandingo slave leads to disaster for the owner's family.
Review:
Full of bare black bodies and reeking of miscegenation, this notorious film is in fact nowhere near as prurient as it sounds and for much of its length achieves its aim of presenting a believable picture of life in the deep south for the negro (some trouble has been taken, for example, to reproduce a mode of speech, with all its solecisms and peculiar vocabulary, shared by master and slave alike). However, it ultimately wears the viewer down well before the grand guignol finale.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 126m
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: James Mason, Susan George, Perry King
Synopsis:
Life, lust and death on a Louisiana plantation in the mid nineteenth century, where the purchase of a mandingo slave leads to disaster for the owner's family.
Review:
Full of bare black bodies and reeking of miscegenation, this notorious film is in fact nowhere near as prurient as it sounds and for much of its length achieves its aim of presenting a believable picture of life in the deep south for the negro (some trouble has been taken, for example, to reproduce a mode of speech, with all its solecisms and peculiar vocabulary, shared by master and slave alike). However, it ultimately wears the viewer down well before the grand guignol finale.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 126m
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: James Mason, Susan George, Perry King
Synopsis:
Life, lust and death on a Louisiana plantation in the mid nineteenth century, where the purchase of a mandingo slave leads to disaster for the owner's family.
Review:
Full of bare black bodies and reeking of miscegenation, this notorious film is in fact nowhere near as prurient as it sounds and for much of its length achieves its aim of presenting a believable picture of life in the deep south for the negro (some trouble has been taken, for example, to reproduce a mode of speech, with all its solecisms and peculiar vocabulary, shared by master and slave alike). However, it ultimately wears the viewer down well before the grand guignol finale.